Category Archives: Column

'TAX GRAB' is such a nasty term. Nobody likes a tax grab. None of us likes to pay taxes at all, let alone when there's a tax grab going on. I'm curious to know what a tax grab is. We throw it out ther...

FRUSTRATION WITH what seems like the losing battle against opioid addiction was obvious Tuesday when Interior Health representatives talked to Kamloops City council. Councillors aren't drug-addiction ...

KAMLOOPS - SPRING HAS SPRUNG and the nicer weather inevitably encourages the graffiti vandals to renew their destructive pastime. They recently tagged an important piece of public art called the Raven...

A YEAR AGO, a horrible bus crash claimed sixteen lives and left thirteen others with lifelong injuries and trauma; their loved ones and so many people across the country still carry the heartbreak wit...

KAMLOOPS - SOMETIMES IT TAKES the right person to promote an idea before it takes hold. Last fall, Tourism Kamloops CEO Beverley DeSantis was shopping around the idea of a Kamloops convention centre. ...

THERE ARE MANY MOMENTS IN LIFE that you just can't prepare for, and equally as many that you hope you'll never have to face. When you have a critically ill child those unexpected and unwanted moments ...

IT'S 20 AFTER 4 on Thursday afternoon at the Moustache and Go coffee shop on Tranquille Road. The Moustache and Go has only been open a couple of weeks and its sign consists of a piece of paper taped ...

HUMANS HAVE NEVER BEEN especially good at dealing with our waste. We like to do silly things with our garbage like toss it out the window of our cars for someone else to handle. Just slightly better i...

REFRACTION’S KATIE NEUSTAETER looks back at her July 24, 2018 column Ryan Shtuka: a mother’s missing child and adds some further thoughts.

MACHINES DO MANY THINGS BETTER THAN HUMANS - except being human. Advances in technology have always generated anxiety. Workers during the Industrial Revolution of the 18th Century thought they would g...